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iflands of John and James; paffes Afbly River to Charles Town Neck; Jiege of that city. Admiral Arbuthnot paffes the Bar with difficulty. American and French marine force abandon their ftation, and retire to the town, where most of the former are funk to bar a paffage. The admiral paffes the heavy fire of the fort on Sullivan's Ifland, and takes Pion of the harbour. General Lincoln fummoned without effect. State of the defences on Charles Town Neck. Colonel Tarleton cuts of a party of the rebels. Col. Webfter paffes Cooper River with a detachment, by which the city is clojely invested. Lord Cornwallis takes the command on that fide. Siege preffed with great vigeur. Admiral Árbuthnot takes Mount Pleafant, and reduces Fort Moultrie. Tarleton defeats and deftroys the rebel cavalry. Capitulation of Charles Town. Garrifon, artillery, frigates, &c. Rebels again defeated by Tarleton, at Waxaw. Regulations by Sir Henry Clinton for the fecurity of the province. Departure for New York. Earl Cornwallis reduces the whole colony. Unexpected danger to which the feverity of the winter bad ex: pofed New York. Gallant defence made by Capt. Cornwallis, against a French fuperior naval force. Three naval actions between Sir George Rodney, and M. de Guichen, productive of no decifive confequences. Infurrections of the loyalifts in North Carolina quelled. Baron de Kalbe marches into that province with a continental force. Is followed by Gen. Gates, who takes the chief command. State of affairs in the two Carolina's. Battle of Camden. Complete victory gained by Lord Cornwallis. Sumpter routed by Tarleton.

CHRONICL E.

General bill of the chriftenings and burials for the year 1780
Births for the year 1780

Marriages

Principal Promotions

Deaths

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APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE.

An account of the late riots in the cities of London and Westminster [254 Copies of letters which paffed between the jecretaries of state, the lord prefident of the council, the commander in chief, and the lord-mayor and aldermen of the city of London, and alfo of the king's proclamation, and the general orders iffued, relative to the late riots Proceedings at the Old Bailey, and of the special commission at St. Margaret'sbill, for the trial of the rioters

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Remarkable actions at fea, viz.

Between his majesty's fhip La Prudente, commanded by the Hon. Capt.
Waldegrave, and La Capricieufe, a French frigate
Between his majesty's fhip Flora, commanded by Capt. Peer Williams,
and a French frigate called La Nymphe

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Aproclamation for diffolving this prefent parliament, and declaring the call-

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To the honourable Houfe of Commons: A repi

planters, merchants, and other perfons interested in the gun.”,

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Anfwer of the King of France to the declaration of the Empress of Ruffia

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Declaration of the King of Sweden to the fame courts

Explanation which the court of Sweden has demanded, relative to the pro-
pofal which the court of Ruffia has made for the reciprocal protection and
navigation of their fubjects

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Anwer of the court of Rufia

Papers which were communicated by Sir Jofeph Yorke, by express orders
from the king his mafter, to his ferene highnes the Prince Stadtholder,
and which were taken out of Mr. Laurens's trunk, viz.

No. I. Treaty of amity aud commerce between the republic of Holland
and the united states of America
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No. 11. Copy of a letter to his Excellency B. Franklin, Efq; at Paris

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No. III. A letter from Mr. Stokton, to the Rev. Dr. Withersp

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Memorial prefented to the States General by Sir Jofeph Yorke, on the 12th of

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ibid.

CHARACTER S.

Character and manners of the Venetians; from a View of Society and Man-

Defcription of the town of Bilbao, and the manners of its inhabitants

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NATURAL

HISTORY.

An account of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which happened in Auguft

1779

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Account of a woman who had the fmall-pox during pregnancy, and who seemed
to have communicated the fame difeafe to the fœtus; with reflections, by
Mr. John Hunter

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N. B. This laft article is mifplaced in the volume, being by mistake
inferted under the head of USEFUL PROJECTS.

USEFUL

PROJECT S.

Obfervations on mineral poisons

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An account of a new and cheap method of preparing pot-afbes; with obfer-

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Caution in building magazines for gunpowder
An account of a method for the removal of ships that have been driven on
fbore, and damaged in their bottoms, to places (however diftant) for re-
pairing them

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A new method of treating the Fiftula Lachrymalis
Dr. Guthrie's account of the Ruffian manner of treating perfons affected by
the fumes of burning charcoal, and other effluvia of the fame nature

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Directions for preventing the fatal effects which frequently follow the drink-
ing large quantities of Spirits
Hints for the general improvement of commons, recommended to the confideration
of every perfon concerned in th

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Hiftory of Gardening; from Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting in England

On improving the memory

On the literary education of women

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Reflections on the diftreffes of the poor; with an account of the unspeakable
diftrefs of one miferable family

Defcription of Pompey's Pillar in the neighbourhood of Alexandria in Egypt,
and an anecdote of fome English fea-officers there
Exemplary inftance of justice in the prefent King of Pruffia

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